Chapter 8
The pair tries to shake Raven out of her thoughts, asking her to repeat what she just said. It's like Raven is in her own world as she's completely non-responsive to the shakes and calls from either Clarke or Lincoln.
"Clarke, where's O?" Raven finally voices. She's still lost in thoughts and doesn't respond to their concerns.
The blonde answers confusedly and not a second later, Raven storms out of Lincoln's apartment only to stop near the elevator.
"I don't know where you live. I don't even know where you live," Raven says with a pained smile when Clarke and Lincoln catch up with her.
"Raven, calm down. What's going on? What about O?" Raven isn't making any sense right now.
"Clarke, damn it. Get me to her now." She leaves no room for anything other than Clarke to comply with her request.
Clarke remains silence for a few seconds, trying to figure out what's going on. She figures that all of them meeting is actually not a bad idea, so she acquiesces. "Follow me."
They all get into Clarke's car, and Raven is too preoccupied with thoughts of Octavia to even question why the hell Lincoln is joining them. Raven tries to call Octavia, but it goes straight to voicemail. "Step on it, princess." The nickname rolls off her tongue with such ease that it catches Clarke off guard. Are they on nickname basis already, now?
"Tell me what's going on, or I'm not moving any faster." Clarke knows she's playing a dangerous game but figures that this cannot get any worse anyway.
Raven is getting angry because how can Clarke not understand the gravity of this situation?! But then it hits her. Like always, she keeps things to herself. Not willing to explain or waste any time on it. Like always, she keeps her walls up; only communicating what's absolutely essential. When did she come to be like this? Maybe, it needs to stop. Maybe. But not now. There are far more important matters, like making sure that Octavia is alright.
"I need to know if she's OK, Clarke."
It's the most vulnerable that Clarke has heard her thus far and an eerie feeling manifests in the pit of her stomach. She looks away from the road and toward Raven for a second or two before looking back. In those second, she saw everything she needed to know. Raven is genuinely scared for Octavia, which meant that Raven definitely cares for the woman as well.
"OK, here's my phone. The passcode is 0307. Call Lexa, she should be with O right now."
Raven grabs the phone from Clarke's hand who is now fully focused on the road again. When Clarke doesn't hear any movement next to her, she peeks a few glances over toward the Raven. Realization dawns on her. "Hey, Raven. It's OK. I know about the run-in the two of you had. Just call and ask to speak to O, or whether she's OK and that the both of them should stay there until we get there?" Clarke smiles softly at her before looking back at the road in front of them. They're only a minute or 3 away but the stoplights are playing a game neither of them like.
Raven, surprisingly enough finds Lexa under that exact name in her list. She clicks on it and swallows hard when it begins to ring in her ear.
She can't do this. Her voice catches in her throat before any words even come out.
Clarke puts her hand on Raven's knee who immediately tenses at the touch. Still, Clarke doesn't remove it. She's driving an automatic so it's not like she needs her hand back right now.
"This is the voicemail of Lexa Woods. I'm sorry, but -" Raven disconnects the call.
"Fuck!" she yells out.
"Maybe, they're sleeping. Lexa seemed rather exhausted and Octavia didn't look all that fresh either. I'm sure everything is OK." Clarke isn't sure if she said that for Raven's benefit or her own. That eerie feeling, now a dreadful one.
It takes them another 6 minutes to arrive at Clarke's place, and Raven immediately jumps out of the car before remembering that she has no idea what number Clarke lives on.
"Come on," Lincoln says while Clarke goes to park her car.
They make it into the lobby, get into the elevator and arrive at Clarke's floor. Lincoln takes the lead towards Clarke's apartment when Raven notices something near the door toward the staircase. It seemed like pieces of a phone.
When Lincoln arrives at the door and starts knocking and ringing the doorbell obnoxiously, he looks around to see Raven hunched over something a few meters back.
"Raven, what is it?"
"Her phone.. - "
At the same time, Lexa opens her front door. "- Hey, Linc. Do you mind? You have a key, don't you? Jeez, I was taking a nap."
"It's her phone.." Raven says loud enough but more to herself than anyone else. She tries to piece together the phone but the screen is cracked and the battery is crushed. It won't turn on.
Clarke exits the elevator just in time.
"Lex, where's O?" She asks hurriedly when she sees her girlfriend staring at Lincoln in her confused sleep-like state.
"She left like 10 to 15 minutes ago. Why, what's wrong? Why are you all here?"
"They took her," Raven states rather firmly.
"Who took her, where?!" Lexa yells back, all sleep suddenly gone from her body.